Search Results for author: Marco Ferrante

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Response to Moffat's Comment on "Towards Meaningful Statements in IR Evaluation: Mapping Evaluation Measures to Interval Scales"

no code implementations22 Dec 2022 Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr

Moffat's comments build on: (i) misconceptions about the representational theory of measurement, such as what an interval scale actually is and what axioms it has to comply with; (ii) they totally miss the central concept of meaningfulness.

Misconceptions

Towards Meaningful Statements in IR Evaluation. Mapping Evaluation Measures to Interval Scales

no code implementations7 Jan 2021 Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr

Recently, it was shown that most popular IR measures are not interval-scaled, implying that decades of experimental IR research used potentially improper methods, which may have produced questionable results.

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